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How many miles to Babylon?

The story of two young Irishmen who become friends despite their class differences and whose friendship endures the strains of World War I, until one of the young men deserts and must face a firing squad commanded by his friend.

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  • "How many miles to Babilon"
  • "How many miles to Babylon?"@it

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  • "The story of two young Irishmen who become friends despite their class differences and whose friendship endures the strains of World War I, until one of the young men deserts and must face a firing squad commanded by his friend."@en
  • "Divided by class, they stood side-by-side in the trenches, Alex and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them."
  • "Raised on the same estate in Ireland, their lives were set apart. Yet Alex, heir to the chilly splendour of the great house, and Jerry, eldest child of a peasant family, form a close-knit friendship.nit friendship._"
  • "Whitbread Literary Award–winning novelist Jennifer Johnston’s story of two young Irish men, whose defiant friendship spans class and, later, rank at the onset of World War I Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his friendship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer in town. Jerry is one of the few bright spots in Alec’s otherwise troubled life. The boys bond over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec’s cold and overbearing mother, who scolds her son for venturing outside of his class. When the Great War begins, he seizes the opportunity to escape his overbearing mother and taciturn father, and enlists in the British army. Jerry, too, enlists—not out of loyalty to Britain, but to prepare himself for the Republican cause. Stationed in Flanders, the young men are reunited and find that, while encamped in the trenches, their commonalities are what help them survive. Now a lieutenant and an officer, Alec and Jerry again find their friendship under assault, this time from the rigid Major Glendinning, whose unyielding adherence to rank leads the two men toward a harrowing impasse that will change their lives forever."
  • "This is the story of two friends whose lives were divided by the bigotries of class and war. What they share as boys is a passion for horses and the Irish countryside. What they share as men is the experience of war in Flanders, and an ordeal beyond even the horrors of the battlefield."

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  • "Irish fiction (English)"
  • "General fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "romaner"
  • "Powieść irlandzka"@pl
  • "Irské romány (anglicky)"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en

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  • "Er ging an meiner Seite : Roman"
  • "Si loin de Babylone ... : roman"
  • "Quanto manca per Babilonia?"
  • "Quanto manca per Babilonia?"@it
  • "How many miles to Babylon? : [novel]"
  • "How many miles to Babylon? : [a novel]"
  • "How many miles to Babylon?"
  • "How many miles to Babylon?"@en
  • "Si loin de Babylone... : roman"
  • "Ile mil do Babilonu?"@pl
  • "Ile mil do Babilonu?"
  • "How many miles to Babylon ?"
  • "How many miles to Babylon? A novel"
  • "How many miles to Babylon? A novel"@en
  • "How many miles to Babylon? : A novel"
  • "Si loin de Babylone. Roman"
  • "Er ging an meiner Seite"
  • "How many miles to Babylon"
  • "Jak daleko k Babylonu"

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